Tag Archives: web host

Web hosting is a service that serves your website to anyone that visits it. While it's possible to host your own web site from a computer at your house, it's generally better to choose a web hosting provider that stores your web site on fast servers in a data center with fast connections. When you visit any website, your computer is actually connecting to another computer that sends the files to your web browser, which then renders those files into web pages that you view. There are many different types of web hosting plans, including:

Shared hosting - Usually recommended for new websites, as it's the most economical way to start a website. Your site is placed on a server with other websites to share the resources.

When you have a site visitor, they use your domain name to view your website. As simple as it seems, there is a process that occurs from the time that the site visitor types in your domain and presses enter.

When a site visitor enters your domain name into a browser, the domain is then translated into your server IP address, then the server sends that user your site files, which their browser represents to them as a typical web-page.You can see that, without each of these 3 elements, you won't really have a web-site.

The three basic parts that make up any current day website are:

Domain Names

Web-Hosting Servers

Site Files

Domain Names

A question that is asked quite frequently. First and foremost we must point out that web hosting is not a get rich quick scheme or an easy business to run. It takes alot of patience, computer and technical knowledge and a solid background in Computer Science to run a successful and solid web hosting company. Some may disagree with this, especially with the innovation of "Control Panels" that makes it easier for anyone to get a pre-built server and start hosting sites. In reality, it's not really that simple. Yes you can lease a dedicated server from a provider and start hosting sites once you are familiar with the control panel BUT a very important point to remember is those control panels still have their limitations. If you do decide to start your own hosting...